'Nourishment is how we care for our people and how we soothe each other.' GhettoGastro gets real with BlackGirlsTexting host Glynn Pogue (a.k.a. bedstuybrat) on the myth of “elevating” classics, durag diplomacy, and their new book BlackPowerKitchen.
a new cookbook from the Bronx-based culinary collective Ghetto Gastro, read, “It’s a cookbook. It’s a manifesto.” These assertions speak to the heart of the mission Ghetto Gastro founders Jon Gray, Lester Walker, and Pierre Serrao laid out when they began hosting their first underground dinner parties over a decade ago. As renowned food historian Dr. Jessica B. Harris lays out in the book’s striking forward, “food is a weapon,” neither apolitical nor ahistorical.
GRAY: Took my third bite. It’s a leftover plate of salmon and brussels sprouts from Mizlala on West Adams in LA with a little bit of Fly by Jing chili crisp and some spicy SovereignPIERRE SERRAO: I’m on a liquid diet right now. I’m on water and orange juice. I walked by a bagel spot earlier when I went to go get some weed and the bagels were trash, so I got to start over. I’m not going to eat until 12 o’clock.
POGUE: Let’s talk more about the book. It’s absolutely gorgeous. It’s so striking the way that it’s arranged. The blend of interview and poetry and imagery, essays, the recipes. How did this come to be? How long have you been working on it? SERRAO: Absolutely, it’s a political text. The oppression and the systemic injustices and systems that were built around making sure that our people didn’t have access to food, that’s all politics. Redlining in our communities, that’s all politics.
POGUE: It’s cool to think about because you all started Ghetto Gastro with bringing people together for a dinner series, right?SERRAO: Free-Style Fridays, Waffles and Models. You did your research. You know the vibes.
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